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CARACAS, Venezuela – The newly re-elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will head back for another round of treatment to combat pelvic cancer that has plagued the world leaders for almost two years.

Chávez has asked his country's legislature Tuesday for permission to travel to Cuba for more medical treatment after spending much of the past 18 months fighting cancer.

The Tuesday request says Chávez has needed "various sessions of hyperbaric oxygenation" and physical therapy to continue "consolidating the process of strengthening health." The request doesn't provide more details about the treatment.

This one is having health issues but for some reason many or most evil people seem to "live long and prosper" compared to normal people. And they certainly out number us when it comes to acquiring power.

This one is having health issues but for some reason many or most evil people seem to "live long and prosper" compared to normal people. And they certainly out number us when it comes to acquiring power.

That's because good people don't want to do the things that they would have to do to aquire power in today's world.

That's because good people don't want to do the things that they would have to do to aquire power in today's world.

Today's world is no different in that regard than at any other time. Power has always lured weak characters, but the checks and balances in the Constitution mitigated the damage that they could do, and an educated, patriotic electorate did the rest. Today, the checks and balances are all but gone, the electorate has been educated by union drones for decades and patriotism is, at best, something that our elites find quaint.

Chavez is a typical third world thug who has managed to seize power. Like the Perons in Argentina, he has taken a country that was once prosperous and turned it into an impoverished socialist mess. The one bit of justice in this is that the last time that he went to Cuba for treatment, the doctors burned him with the radiation treatments and he had to go to Brazil to get private care to undo the damage that socialized medicine did. Of course, he didn't learn anything from this, but hopefully somebody will.